Feb
29/
08

And the gold goes to…

by Michael Buckingham
And the gold goes to…

Had a great time hanging out with fellow designers and design studios Thursday night at the 2008 ADDY Awards. These are the best of the best, the top designers showing their best work. It was a great opportunity to…

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Feb
28/
08

Jesus as a cowboy?

by Michael Buckingham
Jesus as a cowboy?

Chris points us towards the newest line of action figures…have you ever pictured Jesus as a cowboy? Bull riding, football, skateboarding…you name it We are Fisherman has created it.

I’ll be honest I don’t know what to do with…

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Feb
25/
08

How do you recruit a priest?

by Michael Buckingham
How do you recruit a priest?

Move over Sports Illustrated, there’s a new kid on the block. Introducing the Catholic Calendar, a calendar created in the hopes of showing the human side of priests and solict interest among teenagers and college students to the priesthood.…

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Feb
21/
08

How to lose half of your subscribers

by Michael Buckingham

Apparently by mentioning the word sex in a blog title. We’ve been rollin’ along, getting new subscribers pretty consistently and then I decided it would be a good idea to blog about the campaign being run by Relevant Church and…

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Feb
20/
08

30 Days of Sex! Praise the Lord!

by Michael Buckingham
30 Days of Sex! Praise the Lord!

Now here’s a challenge I can get my hands around! Relevant Church in Tampa, Florida has issued a 30 Days of Sex (or not if you’re not married) challenge. There are so many cool things about this.

First it…

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Feb
19/
08

This is what yellow sounds like

by Michael Buckingham

Gap has launched a fun project, Sound of Color, in which they asked various artists to create music based on a specific color. Below is Marie Digby’s translation of the color yellow.

found at Three Minds.

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Feb
18/
08

24.fourteen conference

by Michael Buckingham

If God puts something across your path that may not be the picture of how you see your calling, take a step back and remember: it’s not about you.

I had the honor of doing just that this weekend as…

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Feb
14/
08

Move over Hallmark

by Michael Buckingham
Move over Hallmark

Life Clever points us to greeting cards that actually don’t suck. Maybe it’s just because I see everything through a designer’s eye, but it really is hard to find a greeting card that I can actually put my name on…they’re…

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Feb
13/
08

“It’s Better To Be Down By Four, Than By Three”

by Michael Buckingham
“It’s Better To Be Down By Four, Than By Three”

That’s a quote from Eli Manning in an interview after winning Super Bowl XLII. At first glance it seems that he must have gotten hit too hard, after all a field goal wouldn’t be too hard to tie the game…

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Feb
11/
08

From caves to computers : a history of design

by Michael Buckingham
From caves to computers : a history of design

Many think of graphic design to be something belonging to recent history, birthed by big brands. Graphic design, or visual communication, has in fact existed for thousands of years.

The History of Visual Communication gives a brilliant visual history…

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